Topic: What's your favourite aircraft? (Read 227129 times)

rathikrishna · « **Reply #250 on:** January 29, 2011, 06:47:51 am »

KIWWIIIIIIII..kill meeeeeeeeeeeeee...ohhhhh....how nice it is....AMMAAAAAAAA.....oh..oh..thanks for the 3 view...hoooy...i will start my work today...because i have almost finished my Corsair Bird cage...so its next....Kiwiii.a million thanks again.....again....again.....haiiii...haiiiiii.......

kiwi · « **Reply #251 on:** January 29, 2011, 07:13:38 am »

Rachu, my pleasure.
RRS01, yes all 3 very similar, but neither was as good as the Brit's Mosquito, one of my favourite aircraft.
Want a full size hand made in moulds to original drawings, then made here in old NZ.
cheers
kiwi

RRS01 · « **Reply #252 on:** January 29, 2011, 08:02:56 am »

how about this? the F-35 Lightning II

and if THAT's not cool enough, check out this video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBt-aQ1vObM&feature=related

RRS01 · « **Reply #253 on:** January 29, 2011, 08:12:55 am »

Quote from: kiwi on January 29, 2011, 07:13:38 am

Rachu, my pleasure.
RRS01, yes all 3 very similar, but neither was as good as the Brit's Mosquito, one of my favourite aircraft.
Want a full size hand made in moulds to original drawings, then made here in old NZ.
cheers
kiwi

Wasn't the Mosquito made out of "plywood" ??? thereby making it (for lack of a better word) "STEALTH", not to mention INCREDIBLY fast, for a WWII aircraft??

dodgy geezer · « **Reply #254 on:** January 29, 2011, 09:08:12 am »

Quote from: RRS01 on January 29, 2011, 08:12:55 am

Wasn't the Mosquito made out of "plywood" ???

A thin plywood skin, over a BALSA core. And if they had any trouble sourcing Merlins, they could also use 25 ft of rubber strip to power the props..

rathikrishna · « **Reply #255 on:** January 29, 2011, 01:00:43 pm »

nice...

kiwi · « **Reply #256 on:** January 29, 2011, 05:31:48 pm »

Nicknamed "the wooden wonder".
Complete airworthy body and wings are still available from "The Mosquito aircraft Restoration, Drury, Auckland, NZ.
Dodgy, would love to see the winder for them rubber bands, and the 20second flight time must have been a bit of a handicap for flights across the Channel
cheers
kiwi

rathikrishna · « **Reply #257 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:36:07 am »

nice...

Dave13 · « **Reply #258 on:** February 04, 2011, 03:15:55 pm »

P38 Lightening

roycv · « **Reply #259 on:** February 04, 2011, 04:28:05 pm »

Hi all, referring back to flying, when I was about 13 -14 being in the cadet force, (with father an ex- sargeant major, no choice!) we would go as a small group in our RAF cadet uniforms on Saturdays to local RAF bases and get a tour and a flight. It was mainly Ansons but first in sat next to the pilot and after take off you got about 20 mins flying in. It was not easy making a dash to be first in as we were strapped into parachutes that became a seat when in the aircraft.

On one of these trips I managed to crash a LINK trainer, fore runner of flight simulators.
On another occasion I was marching (well waliking really) on my own and heard a car behind me and turned around and in it were the Queen and royal family so I did a quick salute and got a nice smile back. I bet they though the RAF was getting desperate employing little people!

Best remembered was a week at RAF Marham with RAF Washington aircraft (B 29s), you were given a bag of food for the long overnight flight around U.K. This was before the early warning radar system was operational.

Still like the P51D mustang though!

regards Roy

RMH · « **Reply #260 on:** March 29, 2011, 03:17:38 pm »

This is currently my favourite aircraft as I've just bought a share in it

sunworksco · « **Reply #261 on:** March 29, 2011, 06:16:18 pm »

The Facetmobile is one of my future builds.

bobk · « **Reply #262 on:** March 30, 2011, 10:49:55 pm »

My favorite aircraft is the Mk IV Westland Pterodactyl, circa 1931. The main reason is that I built a flying model of one many years ago, based on plans (If I remember right) in Flight Magazine. Balsa & tissue, with a small electric motor. Incredibly low stall speed. Great fun

Hopefully my latest project, the K class submarine, will be underway early April.

thebackways · « **Reply #263 on:** July 18, 2011, 03:05:45 pm »

being a metal head ive to say my favourite aircraft is 'ed force one'

the F22 Raptor

the SR71 ( already posted )

and for fantasy the falken of ace combat fame

Mr Sam · « **Reply #264 on:** July 21, 2011, 08:55:11 pm »

fave real aircraft the dehaviland chipmunk

and fave model the precedent t180...after i passed my A test on a generic ARTF trainer i bought a ;ovelly T180 and installed a 4 stroke glow engine, behaved just like a trainer yet up the throws and it could perform mild aerobatis.....knife edge and inverted flight were a no go though

sunworksco · « **Reply #265 on:** July 21, 2011, 09:10:46 pm »

I'm making digital drawings of the Kawanishi boatplane.
I'm planning to build a 1/12th scale model in fiberglass construction.
Regards,
Giovanni

ray123 · « **Reply #266 on:** July 21, 2011, 09:16:49 pm »

mine is the vulcan

we have one at southend airport it dont fly but somtimes it taxi's up the runway the restored vulcan came to southend for the air show (back in may) what a sight to see also saw it at goodwood festival of speed earler this month regards ray

Mr Sam · « **Reply #267 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:01:52 pm »

i saw the vulcan at bruntingthorpe years back before the engines were in, payed a bit extra to be allowed in the hangar, seen it a fw times in flight to deffinetly my fave jet what a sound and such slow speed banking at low altitude!

Vulcan by Sam Tait, on Flickr

saw a jet model before they got the real thing going and it had identical flying characteristics

pugwash · « **Reply #268 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:53:17 pm »

My brother and I as kids used to cycle to RAF Bruntingthorpe when the USAF had their RB66B destroyer recce aircraft
based there - they were a version of the US Navy Skywarrior and we used to spend hours watching the take off and landings.
Happy days.

Geoff

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #269 on:** July 22, 2011, 12:10:52 pm »

Can't remember what its called but this was rather nice to see last sunday at the Jämi Fly in

And crazy man even flies it

Click the picture for video

Click the picture for video

The owner of the plane also owns an almost perfect replica of the Fokker DR1.... He was supposed to have it at the show on Sunday but he had a bit of a rough landing at a previous show and damaged the undercarriage.

Im really starting to get a taste for the earlier flying machines... there is something about the Heath Robinson approach to engineering and the "held together with string and nails" look that really appeals to me

Arrow5 · « **Reply #270 on:** July 22, 2011, 12:49:10 pm »

Looks like a Bleriot or a copy of the English Channel crosser`s design.

Spook · « **Reply #271 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:39:59 pm »

Well, not so much the aircraft, but when I was a lad I fancied the pilots (even if they were made of wood

)

But really it's probably the Vulcan. Years ago, I was privileged to be a volunteer at the Wales Aircraft Museum, near Cardiff Airport, now sadly a car park. We had a Vulcan there and I remember the arm-ache after cleaning the flippin' thing. But sitting in the cockpit always gave me a buzz.

Laurent · « **Reply #272 on:** July 29, 2011, 09:10:59 am »

If there must be only one:

Laurent

baloo · « **Reply #273 on:** August 21, 2011, 05:49:30 pm »

It`s got to be the avro lancaster,but the other interest is the "tiff" the hawker typhoon,what a lot of damage they done with there low flying during the war,but you never see any write up or reviews it`s always the spitfire :Baloo

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #274 on:** September 08, 2011, 11:28:04 pm »

Is this the ugliest aircraft of all time?

Polikarpov I-16

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_I-16

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rathikrishna

kiwi

RRS01

RRS01

rathikrishna

kiwi

rathikrishna

Dave13

sunworksco

bobk

Mr Sam

sunworksco

Mr Sam

pugwash

Spook

Laurent

baloo